No Reason to Get Up There Just to Talk

“His belief was that the passage at hand was the Word from God which had to be preached on that occasion. His sentiments ran close to the Reformed Second Helvetic Confession of 1566, that the preaching of the Word of God is the word of God. Thus Lloyd-Jones’s close alignment of preaching with prophesying; without this goal and conviction a man should not preach” (Sargent, The Sacred Anointing, p. 189)